Since many GAC members believe that governments should have a right to assert control over the ccTLD at will, I am not sure they are the best ones to take up this cause. However, I think this is a very important development and would favor having NCUC sign on to the LACTLD statement, or develop one of our own. --MM > -----Original Message----- > From: Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:NCUC- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carlos A. Afonso > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:13 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] [governance] Solidarity with RDS Honduras > > Thanks for your thoughts, McTim. Indeed, a GAC statement would be > fundamental. You are right, the servers are outside of the country, but > the government could go really far if ICANN does not take a stand. I am > mostly worried about RDS-HN itself -- its work goes well beyond managing > the .hn domain, and they are in an extremely vulnerable situation. > > [] fraterno > > --c.a. > > McTim wrote: > > Hi Carlos, > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >> Dear people, > >> > >> > > <SNIP> > > > >> It is obvious a clear and urgent position from ICANN against this > >> arbitrary seizure is needed. > >> > >> > > That would be useful indeed. > > > > Even better if the GAC were to issue a statement condemning this > attempted > > seizure. > > > > This is interesting timing coming the day before the end of the JPA. > > > > In any case, as you can see here: > > http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/hn.html the DNS servers aren't > under > > the control of the honduran gov't, so they clearly haven't thought this > > through. > > > > Does this mean that all Local Internet Registries (ISPs with IP address > > allocations from LACNIC) will also be seized? > > > > it's a disturbing development indeed! > > > > > > -- > > Carlos A. Afonso > CGI.br (www.cgi.br) > Nupef (www.nupef.org.br) > ==================================== > new/nuevo/novo e-mail: [log in to unmask] > ====================================